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ALVIN RAJKOMAR: Hi, I'm Alvin.
I'm a product manager here at Google and a practicing doctor
in internal medicine.
Our goal is to restore the joy of caregiving
and redefine how physicians, nurses, pharmacists,
and more operate.
We want to enable them to operate
at the top of their license, encouraging high quality
and high value care.
Today, health care data is siloed,
and innovation to improve that clinical experience is hard.
The tools for frontline clinicians
are clerical and suboptimal for decision making.
We need modern tools that are a joy to use.
Doctors and nurses spend half their day in electronic health
record, and they often have to log into multiple systems
with multiple usernames and multiple passwords,
rather than seeing all the information in a single place.
This makes accessing the information
they need burdensome, and even when they do get to the data,
they are often confronted with information overload,
and they don't have the tools to quickly and easily find
what they are looking for.
We're excited to share with you what we've been working
on here at Google Health.
The chart you're going to see is synthetic,
meaning it's not real patient data.
The product is currently in development
in early clinical pilots.
It's not yet available for clinical use.
With a single log in, doctors can
access a unified view of data normally spread
across multiple systems.
All the types of information clinicians
need are assembled together, such as the vitals,
labs, medications, notes.
Clicking on any value will start a deeper exploration,
showing recent and historical trends, both graphically
and with tables.
Doctors can query the entire chart
with their own words and typos.
Results are not strict keyword matches.
A variety of Google technologies are
used to indentify related concepts, such as coagulopathy
and thrombocytopenia.
Clinical shorthand works, too.
You can search ABX for antibiotics
and it will return the administered antibiotics
and mentions of them in the note below.
To reduce the number of clicks, clinicians
can jump directly to any part of the chart with a simple search,
such as vitals or notes.
Key information, like the latest admission
note, known as the H&P, are also just a few keystrokes away.
Text is often copy and pasted from prior notes,
obscuring fresh from stale information.
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and the source is shown on hover.
Documentation is a major pain point for physicians.
To help, we've adopted Smart Compose from GMail
to complete common clinical phrases.
As clinicians write in different sections of the note,
relevant information will be shown on the right-hand side,
and tricky-to-enter or spell information is automatically
made easier to enter.
As clinicians type about lab tests,
relevant results will automatically
be shown on the right-hand side.
We'll even try to successfully complete grammatically
what the clinician wants to type and enter
the right piece of information.
Similar proactive assistance works
for reports, such as the chest X-ray, where
it will show the full report.
And after you enter it, you can go back
and see it in any time point.
Last, and this is my favorite feature,
you'll even be able to search for information
and scan documents.
And those faxes, even when they're handwritten,
we'll still find that information for you.
We want to empower clinicians by making it easier
to access complex clinical data with tools
that are delightful to use.
We want to make the work of caring
for patients, like documenting your thoughts,
more efficient and seamless.
We're excited to work with doctors and nurses
on our collective mission of delivering the best
possible care for all patients.
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